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[–] 4 points 6 months ago

If I had a nickel for every time I pointed this out...

Pre-industrial life expectancy was so low because of high infant mortality. If you made it to 38 you were not that much more likely to die before 70 than you are now, precluding outside circumstances like war or plague.

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